>>First, it angers me that the only thing JMS addressed was the way he saw>Gwen>>being b attackedb here. The only reference Ib ve seen like this was one>guy who>>made a joke about Gwen being b damaged goodsb after sleeping with Norman>>Osborn.>>This was nothing more than a joke, and a rather funny one, I thought. If>>anyone>>else seriously characterized Gwen as a b slut,b then theyb re idiots not>worth>>responding to. If youb re going to take the time to post here, then why not>>respond to legitimate criticism and/ or questions? Thereb s certainly no>>shortage>>of them.

Except of course that's not what I said What I said was this:

"The only thing I will mention, the only thing that did surprise me, was thedegree to which some folks have turned on *Gwen*. I've heard of themadonna/whore dynamic, but I've never actually seen it played out thisstrenously. I can't even begin to count the number of posts I've seen fromfolks who arecalling Gwen a slut, a whore, and a tramp...that this destroys her as aperson...that it would be better if she had been raped than having hadconsensual sex."

My comments were meant to be general in nature. You are trying to change theminto a specific rap against this newsgroup.

If you want to get an eyeful, go over to newsarama.com and do a search for gwenand slut, tramp or whore. Or just read through the threads there in thetalkback and review sections. Go on over to comicboards.com or theinsidepulse.com forums the comicbookresources forums...you'll get more thanenough of this.

Go take a look for yourself, don't take my word for it. Or just do a googlesearch with those terms.